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Best Run Away Poems

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Premium Member Run Away With Me
Come run way with me to brink of make believe
Where landscape undulates to rhythm of my dreams
Come run away with me to gypsy’s golden glen
To...

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Categories: run away, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



The Universe of You
I have never seen a flower blush when I took it's hue
and held it there a prisoner captive to my view.

I have always heard the...

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Categories: run away, autumn, beautiful, love, planet,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Desperate Housewife - In Limerick Form
A desperate housewife I knew
had such mundane housework to do.
Being so tired of it,
she decided to quit.
Then off to Las Vegas she flew.

Having always been...

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Categories: run away, adventure, wife,
Form: Limerick
Have a Lovely Day
Have a lovely day


Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day...

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Categories: run away, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)

Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!

What man would abide
being...

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Categories: run away, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Silent Sins
There is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'

when sinister perversions, 
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.

What is a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run away, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Train Tracks
We used to ride our bikes,
the ones without brakes,
along rusty tracks,
trying to keep up with trains

but like life,
they moved too fast,
we always got left behind.

Even...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run away, abuse, analogy, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rest Is Silence
I left her behind
emaciated
I left her
dying
I left her
I left her
I wanted to die there with her
there in the desert
where I left my mother
there where the...

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Categories: run away, history, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Home Is Where the Heart Is
"Home is Where the Heart Is"



Savages 
behind closed doors
Civilised 
but wild animals
sharpening claws
Humanity 
tries to escape itself
can’t run away 
from finding
"TRUE HOME"
behind closed doors
Now opening...

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Categories: run away, freedom, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Justice - a Parable
A woman gave birth to a son
named Justice; he had little fun.
If he wanted to play,
his mama would say,
“But only when Justice is done!”

Poor Justice,...

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Categories: run away, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Squirrels
Spunky squirrels gather up nuts,
stashing them safely out of view.
In no hurry to stuff their guts,
spunky squirrels gather up nuts.
With bulging cheeks and furry butts,...

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Categories: run away, beautiful, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member My Spirit Animal Is a Zoo
Beware the morning tiger
Before his first coffee
     Look out for the afternoon lizard:
     Ectotherm on the sidewalk...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run away, animal, tiger,
Form: Free verse
Maturity
As I sit by the window and look out towards the sun,
A half of me says stay, while the other half says run.

I know it's...

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Categories: run away, childhood, me, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Die Another Day
“Die Another Day”


“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”


“The Place is a hazardous...

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Categories: run away, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Poetic Justice
As legend has it, there lived Bai Balkhash, a rich man
In the North regions of the then Soviet Kazakhstan
Had a beautiful daughter Ili who was...

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Categories: run away, romance,
Form: Burlesque

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